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Bonsai Clubs International (BCI) is committed to the ongoing bonsai education of its members, as well as of the wider bonsai community. With this commitment in mind, BCI has recently released a book for its member clubs that shows an assortment of top notch BCI bonsai artists from around the world. The Instructors book is designed to help clubs in their selection of lecturers, demonstrators, and workshop tutors for club and regional events. It features BCI member artists from Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, India, Japan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, USA, and Venezuela.
It is a beautifully produced large format book that adds to the Bonsai community’s body of knowledge. It also introduces many relatively unknown artists to the bonsai world. For example a number of Chinese artists, who have previously been unknown to western bonsai practitioners, are introduced.
Now that you know a little about the book, here are two ways you can get a copy. The easiest and most straightforward way is to buy one from the BCI webpage. This high quality book retails for $150. Just go to the BCI Book Boutique.
Another, more interesting, way is to get it for free. To do so, all you have to do is recruit 15 new members for BCI (including yourself if you’re not already a member). Send the list of newly recruited members to the BCI Business Manager and she will send you the book. It’s a win-win situation for the new members and for BCI.